Day 10: 2020 Pandemic. Extreme Scenarios, Good and Bad because Stuff Doesn’t Just Happen

21 March 2020

I’m not a glass half full; glass half empty guy. I’m a “what’s in the damn glass?” person.

To understand my psyche, realize I’ve written a and also two books whose original titles were Shit Doesn’t Just Happen: The Gift of Failure. Because of Amazon rules, I amended Shit to Stuff, but it’s still Shit. The premise of those books is to examine seven great disasters in each one and show how it take seven things going wrong for a disaster to happen-I call them cascade events. And if people are involved, one of them, at least, if not all, involve human error.

There’s a lot of information out there about projections for the virus. There are actually people walking around who don’t even know there is a pandemic. Seriously.

Good case: the virus mutates into something less deadly and peters out. Yeah. We wish. Happy with that? As we say in da’ Bronx: fuggehdaboutit.

Bad: There are two ways I’m looking at it: the virus and then the ripple effect on society. While they are connected, they both have to be planned for.

Right now, the focus is the virus. Prevention and treatment. Wash hands, social distancing, lock down. We’ve already bungled it, with states leading the way in what is an international problem, that at the very least requires a coordinated federal response here in the States. We don’t have it. Please, if you feel this is…